Meanwhile, the House version has would require the Pentagon to conduct a formal cost competition in most contracting-out studies, limiting its ability to conduct the streamlined competitions authorized under the 2003 revisions to the federal contracting-out policy, OMB Circular A-76. The measure also would: prohibit reorganizing or remodeling a function performed by government employees for the purpose of avoiding the competition requirements; require DoD to conduct a pilot program of using A-76 on four current contracts to consider bringing the work in-house; and expresses the sense of Congress that DoD civilian employees “should receive comparable treatment as contractors throughout the process of a public-private competition, and in particular, with respect to legal standing to challenge the competition.” The White House has issued a statement opposing restrictions on the contracting out program.